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Nepal maintains sixth place in world lentil output: FAO
KATHMANDU, SEP 01 – Nepal has retained its position as the world’s sixth largest producers of lentil s in 2012 after it logged 0.64 percent rise in production to 208,201 tonnes, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The FAO statistics show that Nepal’s production accounted for 4.57 percent of the world’s lentil s…
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Supporting Youths and Agriculture Through ICTs.
Supporting Youth and Agriculture through ICTs: a message from the e-Agriculture Team Agriculture is one of the most ancient and basic productive sectors of human activity, yet young farmers around the world have been exposed to tremendous barriers in starting a farming career. Now, due to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), they are finding…
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Why your website needs to work across multiple devices
Why your website needs to work across multiple devices By Mayur Kisani The majority of today’s users consume media on multiple screens — smartphones, tablets and TV. From checking email to surfing to tweeting about a TV show or finding out about a product, your customers are mobile and spend a considerable amount of time…
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Youth Climate Report: The Youth Express
Climate is changing and we are facing its impacts. There is both positive and negative impact of climate changes but we need to focus on negative impacts of it because they are vulnerable to us. In mountainous countries like Nepal, Climate changes leads to continuous melting of snows, glacier lakes etc. People living just below…
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The End of Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
On September 08, 2000 leaders from United Nations (UN) member countries along with 23 different international organizations met up in Millennium Summit to addresses different human problems. After three days long millennium summit, general assembly of UN realizes that combine effort of countries and people all over the world is necessary to solve existing problems;…